Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
An intensive clean-up drive in the Red Sea port town of Safaga lifted 65 tonnes of rubbish from streets and open ground, the state news portal Ahram Gate reported, publishing photographs from the operation.
8 September 2026
The Egyptian daily says it went out to survey maintenance on the Qift–El Quseir desert road after an official denial that the route had deteriorated. Residents told the paper that patching is not a permanent fix.
8 September 2026
Tourism investors in Marsa Alam are calling for their demands to be put before the prime minister to "save their projects", Al-Masry Al-Youm reported on 7 September. Two other outlets carried a warmer note the same day, and El Watan reported the Red Sea governor discussing the development of Port Ghalib marina.
7 September 2026
The governorate has been told to form an engineering committee to examine building renewable energy plants, a move framed as support for the coast's tourism expansion. Sites, capacity and timing were not given.
7 September 2026
A back-to-school exhibition selling supplies at up to 30 percent below retail has opened in El Quseir, Ahram Gate reports. Its location, hours and closing date were not given.
7 September 2026
Inspectors stopped construction on a plot in Hurghada's Al-Hijaz subdivision over structural and open-space violations, while El Quseir moved against building breaches the same day.
7 September 2026
The executive committee of the National Initiative for Smart Green Projects has started assessing the Red Sea's submitted projects, two Egyptian outlets report. Numbers, sectors and timing were not published.
7 September 2026
The Egyptian outlet says Marsa Alam is in line for an integrated hospital plus repairs to its roads and utility networks, with backing from the Sukari gold mine — and that energy, water and air links are the three problems being tackled for investors in the town. The reports are headline-level, with no cost, timetable or contractor given.
7 September 2026
The Cairo daily says it documented hundreds of trees along the Hurghada road reduced to bare frames, prompting what it describes as an urgent response from the Red Sea Governorate.
6 September 2026
Minister of Electricity Mahmoud Esmat met an Orascom Construction delegation to review the 900 MW wind project on the Red Sea coast at Ras Shukeir and stressed sticking to the timetable and connecting it to the national grid.
6 September 2026
The Red Sea governor has directed officials to draw up an inventory of the money the state is owed by the mining company Centamin at Marsa Alam and to strengthen the company's community work in the area, Al-Bawaba News reports.
6 September 2026
The Red Sea governor has announced six free scholarships at Sinai University for students from the governorate, Shorouk News reports. The report gives no fields of study, criteria or application route.
6 September 2026